Barr on Hawking
As regular readers of this blog know, Stephen Barr is no friend of ID. But here he gets it right on Hawking’s recent foray into theology. A sample: Physics scenarios and theories are merely mathematical stories. They may be fictional or describe some reality. And just as the words of a book by themselves can’t tell you whether it’s fact or fiction—let alone have the power to make the world they describe real—so with the equations of a physics scenario. As Hawking once understood, equations may turn out to be an accurate description of some reality, but cannot not confer reality on the things they describe. What Hawking called in his previous book the “usual approach of science” is in Read More ›